The following letter to the editor was submitted in response to “Blowing off Hiking Ethics and Safety: How To and Not To” by James P. Johnson in OTM’s July issue. I enjoy reading articles in your magazine, and in “Last Page” of the July issue was an article by James P. Johnson, entitled Blowing off […]
Letter to the Editor: No Trespassing. Really. Read More »
I’ve done many road trips to British Columbia, because there’s a ton of beauty there, so it’s natural I’m super excited whenever I go. Maybe you noticed I borrowed the words from the well-known phrase, Super, natural British Columbia. Luckily, not much travel time is necessary to experience BC’s super naturalness. The following hikes with
Close-to-the-Border BC Trails with Views Read More »
So often in my neighborhood or a trail close to town, I stop to look a majestic, thick-trunked ponderosa up and down. Sometimes it’s one tree or a group I’ve admired many times before. I have an enduring affinity for the most common tree in the Inland Northwest. This attraction once led to a clandestine
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In five minutes we’re going to miss getting our bikes on the bus. My nine-year-old son Jackson has done a lot of crazy things with me this year—including going to Iran—but I know biking up the South Hill in 25 minutes on Saturday night is going to elicit mutiny. We make the bus, but we
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BIRDMONSTER From the Mountain to the Sea (Fader) Oh how I love Birdmonster. The San Francisco quartet has long been a favorite of Spokane (thanks in part to the Spokesman’s Isamu Jordan!), and though they’ll be skipping the tour stop on their next outing, this new disc is plenty to hold you over. Birdmonster plays
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